i hope so bc i want to believe amotti will pull through lmao... though i feel like they lost out by not really…
No. The circuit race should be YSB and Amotti. KDH is old and not as fast as he think he is. He is better at the ball toss cause he train for hydrox challenge that had ball toss too. ( a bit different though)
i thought that too, especially since amotti's background is in crossfit so circuits should be more of a breeze…
Agree here. Again Korea team choose the wrong strategy. Instead of YSB and KDH on first mission, it should be YSB and Amotti. And KDH pick the last mission.
Also the strategy on first mission is wrong. The boys should save energy first at first round and aim at second. Then go all out at second round, aim for first.
Mission 2 is the mission for brain and brawn. So many leaders clearly dont had the right strategy here. Only Australians had the right one by targeting the 50 kg box first. Why its important?
Cause its 1 box = 50 kg. It much easier to transport to team vault. And its also give the person whose only job manage this box something to do.
Indonesia and Philippines basically only getting the 20 kg sand bag. Although carrying 20 kg was lighter and quicker, but the leaders fails to realise, by only targeting 20 kg bags, only 5 person and NOT 6 person in your team are doing the mission. Meanwhile other teams who also managing the 50 kg boxes had ALL 6 people doing the mission.
6 people againts 5 people? Of course the 5 people team will lost anytime.
My prediction the last 4 nations standing will be Australia, Mongolia, South Korea and Turkiye.
But Japan is the dark horse. If they used the right strategy they can sneak in. Mission 1 is the prove here. Their build are smaller than South Korea athletes but they hang on so tough in the mission 1 so many times . So many rematches.
Meanwhile sadly to say, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines will be out first. Just cause lots of mission here will be very physicals and they dont had the physics to compete. Mission 2 already proved that. These 3 countries total weights from the mission are just too far behind even compare to Japan.
This is more like Asia vs Europe vs Oceania. Although Turkiye is in Asia but they never compete in any Asian Games and regularly compete in European sports events. The only time Australia compete in any Asia sport is football matches. That because they never qualify for World Cup when they were in Oceania zone. Asia zones had more quota and easier to qualify.
This so called romance had more bad people than good people. So many useless characters keep getting screen time. Basically the screen writer try to stretch the thin plot into 12 episodes by giving screen time to each and every characters and reducing the screen time for FL and ML. Even the lawyer get so much screen time for unrelated story with FL.
The story as a whole is a 7. The screenwriter try to balance romances and palace politics with some success and failure.
The failure= the outcome stories were predictable. But at least all the bad guys are dead , too quickly though.
The Alliances story was wasting time.
The success=
Spoilier dont read if you dont want to know the outcome.
Very good for the screenwriter to Writing two different outcome with two families in one series.
1. Father son relationship between Emperor and FSG and the Murong's.
The emperor is a total failure as husband and as a father. Till his death, he still try to using everyone including his sons. All he love is himself. Good ridance. I am glad he got killed by the empress.
Meanwhile Murong Senior although was wrong at the end but he does all of that for his son. This is the one aspect that the ML was so jealous of his ex friend. His dad love him enough to sacrifice his life.
Second story was Two Sushas princes with different mother but love and care for each other. Two Jinxiu princes also had different mother but hate each other and kill each other.
Of course XJS is the biggest fool out of all. His character really was the one I dont care at all. Why on earth he killed FXY? He signed his own death certificate when he did that cause FSG will never let it go and will take revenge.
So far the story was good. So many good looking actresses and actors. But lot of them need to improve the acting. Most of them act with typical acting when they were super angry, sad and cruel to others. Example: the eyes will look very big when they were angry or cruel. There were zero micro facial expressions.
But again, they probably not hired for their amazing acting. The visuals are stunning though.
I hope this one will be good. Lately the quality of cdrama was average to not good. They just keep giving us good looking actors and actresses with VERY WEAK script.
32 episodes were too long for this drama. The plot was so thin, they stretched it beyond belief. You just need to watch the first 5 episodes and the last 4 episodes, and you can understand the WHOLE drama just fine.
A 6 for me. (The acting was good. The script was meh)
You can do the whole housework and sending text to friends or play mobile games while watching this drama, and you still can understand the whole drama.
Not a great spin off of the OG. Its clear this series had a big budget cut. Instead of building a fake place from scratch, this time they just made a fake dish. All the places so far is real. One of the three dishes is fake. Whatttt????
And the 4 main hosts try their best pretend and deliberately said the places are fake, not real. But in reality, they already know only the food is fake.
In reality, you cannot called the food is fake. Cause these food was created by real chefs who had years of experience. Its not fake food, just new untested food. Some of the food even will be sold by the the restaurant owners now.
Overall, the show lost its charm with its limited budget.
It will be better, if the PD and hosts be more honest in each episode. Instead pretend trying to find a fake place, they just try to find a new dish out of 3 places that just created for this show.
It seems like these 3-4 years, J police/crime/thriller drama writers become lazy and has zero ideas anymore. Most of these drama become mediocres and preditable.
Either dramas with lots of coincidences, easy solving, or lots of holes in the story.
Its a shame. Cause years ago, J crime/ mystery dramas are one of the best.
Hope we get better writing from ep4 and so on. Though I dont had any expectation.
My prediction: at the ending, the real bad guy will escape or the evil organisation still standing.
All the Dramas revenge plot I watch, usually the ML or FL will hell bent on revenge till the end no matter what it cost. Lying and dumping the loves one with intention to protect them were the common troupe. Its like they all lost their mind and common sense.
Except for MCS from Nirvana In Fire. He was the calmest ML who plot and prepare the revenge without losing his cool and will not act recklessly.
Because they had around 21 eps to fill after ep 19, we get to see big misunderstanding around DW and YZJ. I hope they are not strecthing this plot too long.
This series start very strong till ep 19. If they are strecthing the misunderstanding till ep 29-30, it will be a big letdown. Lets wait and see.
If YZJ sister turn out not dead. My prediction, she will be....
CSJ. Cause as middle villain, she get a lot of screen time, back story, character development. She did not had any high rank title, will not succed her father business, so why she kèep getting screen time?
She probably will had the red pearl as proof she is from the Yan family.
Hope my prediction is wrong. Cause this girl is beyond redemption. Cruel and every second try to harm ML, FL and SML. I had not feel any symphaty for her.
Also the strategy on first mission is wrong. The boys should save energy first at first round and aim at second. Then go all out at second round, aim for first.
Cause its 1 box = 50 kg. It much easier to transport to team vault. And its also give the person whose only job manage this box something to do.
Indonesia and Philippines basically only getting the 20 kg sand bag. Although carrying 20 kg was lighter and quicker, but the leaders fails to realise, by only targeting 20 kg bags, only 5 person and NOT 6 person in your team are doing the mission. Meanwhile other teams who also managing the 50 kg boxes had ALL 6 people doing the mission.
6 people againts 5 people? Of course the 5 people team will lost anytime.
But Japan is the dark horse. If they used the right strategy they can sneak in. Mission 1 is the prove here. Their build are smaller than South Korea athletes but they hang on so tough in the mission 1 so many times . So many rematches.
Meanwhile sadly to say, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines will be out first. Just cause lots of mission here will be very physicals and they dont had the physics to compete. Mission 2 already proved that. These 3 countries total weights from the mission are just too far behind even compare to Japan.
From a solid 8 now to 6,5.
The failure= the outcome stories were predictable. But at least all the bad guys are dead , too quickly though.
The Alliances story was wasting time.
The success=
Spoilier dont read if you dont want to know the outcome.
Very good for the screenwriter to
Writing two different outcome with two families in one series.
1. Father son relationship between Emperor and FSG and the Murong's.
The emperor is a total failure as husband and as a father. Till his death, he still try to using everyone including his sons. All he love is himself. Good ridance. I am glad he got killed by the empress.
Meanwhile Murong Senior although was wrong at the end but he does all of that for his son. This is the one aspect that the ML was so jealous of his ex friend. His dad love him enough to sacrifice his life.
Second story was
Two Sushas princes with different mother but love and care for each other. Two Jinxiu princes also had different mother but hate each other and kill each other.
Of course XJS is the biggest fool out of all. His character really was the one I dont care at all. Why on earth he killed FXY? He signed his own death certificate when he did that cause FSG will never let it go and will take revenge.
But again, they probably not hired for their amazing acting. The visuals are stunning though.
A 6 for me. (The acting was good. The script was meh)
You can do the whole housework and sending text to friends or play mobile games while watching this drama, and you still can understand the whole drama.
But the five of them still make me laugh from time to time. Hope they get second season from netflix.
And the 4 main hosts try their best pretend and deliberately said the places are fake, not real. But in reality, they already know only the food is fake.
In reality, you cannot called the food is fake. Cause these food was created by real chefs who had years of experience. Its not fake food, just new untested food. Some of the food even will be sold by the the restaurant owners now.
Overall, the show lost its charm with its limited budget.
It will be better, if the PD and hosts be more honest in each episode. Instead pretend trying to find a fake place, they just try to find a new dish out of 3 places that just created for this show.
And too many attacking from each team.
So far there are 3 teams. JDM team. (5 people) HJH team (6 people) and KKR team (4 people). Plus 3 people in jail.
Either dramas with lots of coincidences, easy solving, or lots of holes in the story.
Its a shame. Cause years ago, J crime/ mystery dramas are one of the best.
Hope we get better writing from ep4 and so on. Though I dont had any expectation.
My prediction: at the ending, the real bad guy will escape or the evil organisation still standing.
Except for MCS from Nirvana In Fire. He was the calmest ML who plot and prepare the revenge without losing his cool and will not act recklessly.
This series start very strong till ep 19. If they are strecthing the misunderstanding till ep 29-30, it will be a big letdown. Lets wait and see.
She probably will had the red pearl as proof she is from the Yan family.
Hope my prediction is wrong. Cause this girl is beyond redemption. Cruel and every second try to harm ML, FL and SML. I had not feel any symphaty for her.
My prediction, DW father is Yu Shi. The head jewelry designer from Yan family.